Session Title

Self Management in 5 Building Blocks for Agile Organizations

Abstract

Today's organizations are choking on red tape and top-down decision-making. Managers spend too much of their time granting permission, and when employees closest to the work sense an urgent need for change, they're left stranded. It’s little wonder that more than 85% of employees worldwide report feeling disengaged from their work. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that) the way we work isn’t working

Holacracy practice is an agile alternative to the conventional management structure. It provides a framework for self-management that distributes decision-making, scales easily, and fundamentally empowers employees by allowing them to work with alignment and autonomy.

In this talk, Holacracy co-founder Brian Robertson will outline five concrete steps organizations can take to implement self-management using Holacracy. Whether or not you decide that self-management is right for your company, you’ll learn how to make your meetings more efficient, create a system that empowers your team, and increase organizational clarity.

Bio

Brian Robertson is the world’s foremost expert on Holacracy, a revolutionary framework for running self-managing organizations. After years as CEO of an award-winning software company, he co-founded HolacracyOne to share this innovative framework with other organizations ready to self-manage. Brian wrote the book ​Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World.​ Over 1000 companies use Holacracy today – in healthcare, insurance, banking, retail, technology, nonprofit and government sectors and in places as diverse as Dubai, Shanghai, Amsterdam, London, Berlin, New York, Bangalore, Las Vegas and rural Africa. He’s thrilled to see the method take root and grow with such force.